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Solomon Kane NPC For Castles & Crusades, Amazing Adventures, & Victorious Rpg - While there don't appear to be official Castles & Crusades (C&C) statistics for Solomon Kane, we can easily create some based on his character in Robert E...
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2024 Commercial Map Pack - The collection of all 48 commercially licensed maps released on the blog during 2023 is now available in a convenient … Continue reading →1 day ago
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Ol' Groove's Diversions of the Groovy Kind at Blue Moon Comics' Ko-fi Shop Has a NEW FREE Post! - Ol' Groove's new post will go live at Blue Moon Comics' Ko-fi Shop at 12:01 pm Thanksgiving Day! Check out the Groovy Agent's look back at the cool tabl...
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Ancestral Peninsula #1 - By Guilherme ProvidelloSavvy Thief StudiosOSELevel 1 For years, you were victims of an imperial Senator who lived in the Capital. He stole you as children ...2 days ago
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Wednesday Comics: Gift Suggestions 2025 - Looking for a gift for a comic book fan you know (even if that fan is yourself)? Here are my recommendations for you to consider. Absolute Martian Manhu...
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Dan Plays Games 9 - In the last installment, Arnold suggested writing some bits of gameable material at the end, and I think that's a pretty good idea. Only got one bit for ...
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[Q&A] Christopher Pickett (Danse Macabre: Medieval Horror Roleplaying) - [7:33 PM]Chris Pickett (Danse Macabre): First, thanks so much for having me! My name is Chris Pickett and I am a multi-disciplinary artist living in Brookl...2 days ago
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A Review of 'Local Heroes' by Amanda Lee Franck - "put on a mysterious hat or a wizard robe or a regular robe" (Disclosure; I am friends with the creator so you can add this review to the ever-expanding...
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Map Making as Gateway Drug: The Creation of a World - When I first got back into RPGs in, I suppose, my mid-late 20s (I had taken a bit of a break after becoming too cool for school in my teenage years) it was...3 days ago
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HATE STAIN - My friend and sometimes co-host on the podcast, jim pinto, has a new *Mork Borg* expansion on kickstarter. Jim is the maker of 100s of games, and the man...
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Starter Set: Heroes of the Borderlands: Looking at the Wilderness Encounters - This is the 3 video in this series. The first was the unboxing and the physical things inside. Then I moved onto the keep quests. And in this one I go t...
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The 1948 Columbia “Superman” serials, entirely based on the radio show version of the character, was… - The 1948 Columbia “Superman” serials, entirely based on the radio show version of the character, was the earliest visual media depiction of Superman’s ho...3 days ago
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Deal of the Day - Summer's End and Other One-Page Adventures (Questing Beast OSR) - *Today's Deal of the Day is Summer's End and Other One-Page Adventures* by Ben Minton/Questing Beast. For the next 24 hrs or so, you can grab *Summer's ...
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The Tainted - This post covers the last batch of "ancestries" typically available in my Krevborna games: the tainted. The tainted are deviant branches of mankind’s fam...
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Hush Hush House 2 - the NPCs (Night's Black Agents, Dracula Dossier) - This week's post is inspired by this article over at the Guardian. It's a photographic spread featuring actors/military portraying OPFOR in military exer...5 days ago
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How to run a slasher Part 2. - I actually thought I posted this already. Player Characters The PCs in the game I ran were all pre gens and divided into two waves. Wave one was compr...1 week ago
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Fiendish Monsters: The Horror Art of Bruce Timm cover revealed! Available December 2nd on Flesk… - Fiendish Monsters: The Horror Art of Bruce Timm cover revealed! Available December 2nd on Flesk...1 week ago
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Itty Bitty Gnome Comitee - will be a chagrinspire 4 this year, but I'm freezing my Patreon acc currently. Got a pile of DCC adventure compilations at a good price and the monday mo...
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Mutants and Wizards - Heya folks, long time no see. I've just started working on something new called Mutants and Wizards. It's going to be an OSE/OSR post-apocalyptic game t...2 weeks ago
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Andor! The Game - Andor s1 concept art by Luke HullSo starting out with: Andor is great, *depressingly *timely, and probably the best Star Wars media made to date (includin...
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Five Fixed Encounters for Epoch... - Our latest, *Epoch*, is a prehistoric game emphasizing wilderness hexcrawls. Even so, fixed encounters are essential to an overarching game narrative. Stor...
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G.I. Robot Was Right - I found this while scrolling yesterday. I love GI and just ordered a “GI Robot Was Right” shirt yesterday. I think it might be time for another Punch A Naz...
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Mystery surge of blog visits in August 2025 - Over the course of this blog’s sixteen years of life, it typically has received in the range of 5,000 – 10,000 page visits per month. A handful of times ...
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Ten Friggin Hill Cantons Wizards - 10 Wizards of the Hill Cantons # Name Description 1 Magister Dobromil the Cauterizer Specializes in magical “cleaning” of reality leaks. Wears fou...
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Experience with Python - Well, it amused me to make it. (Inspired by my Facebook ads.) But it did get me thinking about how Conan the Barbarian set the bar so high for 1980s f...
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On Bounty, Questions worth asking. - Well? Will we? Available Now! https://sinlessrpg.com ------------------------------ *Hack & Slash* Follow, Twitch, Support, Donate to end Cancer (5 ...
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What is the point of the OSR? - Over on Reddit, Kaliburnus asks What the point of the OSR is? He concludes his post with some questions. So, honest question, what is the point of OSR?...
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The Earwight - The sinister little insects known as earwights are thought to have once been earwigs who fed on the decaying flesh of revenants or other matter suffused wi...2 months ago
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B5 Horror on the Hill - Finished! - After what feels like an inordinate amount of time, we finally finished Adventure *B5: Horror on the Hill.* We started this one back in the fall of 2024....
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COLOURED GAS BEING - COLOURED GAS BEING "He had learned much of the Other Gods in distant parts of space, especially in that region where form does not exist, and coloured gase...
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Tomb of the Blind and Deaf Dead - So the cat is out of the bag thanks to Tobias Schulte-Krumpen, who posted the above image to the Lamentations of the Flame Princess facebook group. I ...
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Eyes of Idola, Part 2 - This is Part 2. Here is Part 1. *Concept 1: Entering the Dungeon* Descending the stairs into B1, the party reach rooms that are dark, crowded, flooded, a...3 months ago
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The Crypt of Atan-Thu - I was one of the first backers for this adventure. It looks so promising! Kickstarter ends on 26th August. Check it out at the following link: htt...4 months ago
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Trollish Delver moving - In an effort to get away from the shadow of Google this blog can now be found at www.trollish-delver.writeas.com.8 months ago
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And Now For Something Completely Different - I'm participating in another blogging challenge this month, the 31 Day Character Creation Challenge - I opted to make a classic *Traveller* character each ...10 months ago
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The Tarot of Pips - Somewhere in your dice collection is a die like this one, the humblest of dice. Although you don't know it, this small white die carries with it a secr...11 months ago
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Inspectres in Grifton - On November 8, we played a one-off Inspectres game set with the Starkweather monster hunter tradition, based in Grifton. My Setup I quickly pulled out and ...1 year ago
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FWS Ships of the Line: Explorer and Science Ships - Often one of the set pieces for high space adventure and tragedy is those spacecraft that go where no one has gone before and may never go again if the ou...
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More Moria - Thanks to Free League's Moria: Through the Doors of Durin sourcebook for their Lord of the Rings RPG The One Ring, we have an updated & official map, guid...1 year ago
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Profitez des offres de bonus exclusives: Découverte de l’offre de 200 tours gratuits et 75 € - Êtes-vous un amateur de jeux en ligne et à la recherche de nouvelles opportunités excitantes? Alors, préparez-vous à découvrir une offre qui va changer v...2 years ago
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Angels, Demons and Subtle Bodies - It’s delightful when D&D-isms sometimes converge with ancient wisdom, even accidentally. I was watching a video from Jonathan Pageau earlier today concerni...2 years ago
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Dungeon23 February Retrospective - Another month, another section of Alhamra put to bed. But before February gets too far behind us, I wanted to post my thoughts on the month that was. I’m n...
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There Were Dice - I started my Spelljammer game last weekend. It was my first time DMing since December 2021. I wasn't as rusty as I thought I was going to be, but I *was ...2 years ago
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Legends of Law: Von Hoff - Wampus Country has had its share of heroes, both in antiquity and in the modern era, but perhaps none is held up as the flower of knighthood quite as mu...3 years ago
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Notes on a semi-successful skill system - When I finished my Team Tsathogga campaign back in 2019, one of the things that I noted afterwards was the extent to which fighters had struggled to keep...3 years ago
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Trying Something New - Based on what I said last time, I’m going to try out something new. Check out my posts at Medium – one test you can ignore, one discussion of why I chose t...3 years ago
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Its time to move this blog. - So tired of Blogger changing things. I've been using this since 2008 or 2009 and its this new interface they forced us to have has been driving me crazy...5 years ago
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Strange, Dangerous, and Inhuman: The Fey and Fairie - When I was a boy I loved fairy tales. Jack and the Beanstalk, Puss in Boots, Rumpelstiltskin - I devoured all of it. My fascination that there was a strang...5 years ago
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In the far, far future of mankind...they apparently remember Flans. - I'm developing a space opera setting for SF RPG shenanigans, and this is the 'map' of the known, inhabited star systems. It's a map that I created, so it l...
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balu8: Crime Convention by Jeph Loeb and Darwyn Cooke - balu8: Crime Convention by Jeph Loeb and Darwyn Cooke6 years ago
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Discontinued - Friends, I'll make it official. I will stop this blog. A lot has happened last year. And my interests have moved in a different direction. Thank you for...6 years ago
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Ravensburg Reboot: Streamlined City Map - I mentioned in my last post how I was tweaking and reworking parts of my Ravensburg setting. Today I streamlined the city map. The old map had lots of redu...
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Please, I don't do paid advertisements - don't ask. - A little note since people have asked me about this. My video channel's *not* an advertising platform, so I'm not available for hire if you want to promote...6 years ago
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How can We Destroy this Campaign World? - d12 1. You must trick a bard into strumming the *Chords of Fate* on the *Lute of Annihilation* 2. Legends tell of thermonuclear weapons beneath megadunge...
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omercifulheaves: Red SonjaArt by Bruce Timm - omercifulheaves: Red Sonja Art by Bruce Timm7 years ago
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Goodbye and Good Luck - Well some of you may have noticed this blog has been down, restricting access for some time. For various reasons I've decided to step away from the OSR...
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Eurafrika Attacks! [Campaign Idea] - Around about 1929, a German architect by the name of Herman Sörgel came with an idea he called Atlantropa. The idea was simple (no, not really) - he was go...
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Additional Things - Doing Away with Hitpoints - So there s a couple of things you need to adress, if you want to get rid of Hitpoints. These are not fully formed rules, this, like much of the stuff i pos...8 years ago
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The Cosmic Gobsmack: Me and Mr. C - My gut started bothering me a week or so before the last GenCon. I had a previously set appointment for Aug. 21st and told my Family Dr., who recommended a...9 years ago
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Bob and Thor track and find three deer in one day - Thor von Moosbach-Zuzelek, a brother to our Tuesday and Darren Doran's Theo, has had a great tracking season so far. He helped hunters to recover their de...
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Thrantrix the Ineffable Contest - Thrantrix the Ineffable, that lovable whirling-ball-of-snakes Chaos Godling, has demanded that her worship grow. So we’re running a contest! We want to see...9 years ago
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Why I No Longer Buy Under Armour Products - This post is an opinion piece, done to express my disappointment in Under Armour as a company and make clear my intention to stop purchasing any of their...9 years ago
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Cardinal Spider--Montporte Dungeon Campaign Critter - *CARDINAL SPIDER* Cardinal spiders travel in small roving bands made up of 2-8 males and 2-4 females. The males are the smaller of two (about 60 pounds in...
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Godbound: Freedom of Strife - • The plan was for the group to Liberation, sneak into the prison, and then get out with Strife. Turns out the complication was Hope and Bones. Bones ha...9 years ago
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A short review of every post-apocalyptic novel I've ever read. - The other day I was thinking about post-apocalyptic novels, and how many of them I'd read. So I sat down and created a list of as many of them that I've re...9 years ago
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Adventures on the 7th sea – Campaign specifics Part I - In any rpg campaign there will be "home rules" reflecting The flavor and tone of the campaign, the specific rule changes and, (of course) a Dungeon Master...
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Illyrians of Note: The Demimonde - Just above the ranks of the criminal underworld but falling just short of respectability, there exists a shadowy, ill-defined "half-world" populated by a ...
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They growl - A man and a dog *Each day the dogs chased the women from the house, and each day they dug clams on the beach. This was all the food they could get; the ...
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- I am thought to be exiled gentry, a vagabond, a scandalous rogue, a troubadour, armchair tactician, amateur grifter, self taught mechanic, would be author, adventurer, rogue scholar, traveler of strange lands, and an all round near do well.
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